Clinerion is the worldwide leader in medical data informatics, radically improving efficiency in patient search and identification, increasing effectiveness in clinical research and accelerating the process of drug development to ensure an earlier availability of medicines.

New Clinerion technology patent for ANID

Clinerion has filed an international patent application following the PCT route for a new technology for patient search and identification based on the electronic medical records of patients held by hospitals. The ANID technology involves exclusively the use of de-identified, unlinked data, ensuring the privacy and security of patient information.

ANID is based on fully de-identified, unlinked patient records, with no use of pseudo IDs.

PCT patent filed for a new technology which uses a combination of techniques to match de-identified, unlinked records with corresponding hospital medical records.

New system set-up increases data security and privacy protection.

Technology can be applied in the identification of clinical trial candidate patients within trial sites.

ANID technology, as implemented in Clinerion’s Patient Network Explorer, significantly reduces any risk of private information being revealed when using patient medical records to evaluate study feasibility, or identifying patients for enrollment in clinical trials.

The new technology uses exclusively de-identified, unlinked records, but enables the duly authorized clinical trial manager at the hospital to re-identify eligible patients. Although all identifiable personal information and patient record identifiers have been completely stripped from medical records before use, the new technology can enable a healthcare provider to match these de-identified, unlinked records with corresponding hospital records through the use of a combination of techniques.

The new system set-up involves a one-way, outbound-only connection between the hospital IT infrastructure and the locally hosted Clinerion server, further increasing information security.

While offering a new, enhanced level of data protection, ANID maintains all the advantages of the legacy Clinerion technology, such as following HIPAA rules regarding protection against accidental identification. Query results for feasibility requests are stored in the Clinerion secure private cloud environment, which only sees aggregated counts of the patients which fit the queries. The performance of the Clinerion Patient Network Explorer is not affected, results still appear in real-time and the number of eligible patients found remains 10-30 higher than through conventional methods.

All new Clinerion installations will use the new technology from now on. Existing installations are being migrated at the request of partner hospitals.

ANID can be expanded for any uses wherein a database of de-identified, unlinked records must be queried and the records later re-identified.